1st Edition
Changing Media, Homes and Households Cultures, Technologies and Meanings
- Introduction
- Early Television
- The Domestication of Media Technology
- Mediatised Childhoods and Media Parenting
- From Arcade to Family-Centred Video Gaming
- Touchscreen Homes and the Domestication of the Computer Tablet
- "Home", Belonging and Media Engagement Among Migrants and Transnational Families
- Homes of the Future: From Smart Homes to Connected Homes
- The Mediatised Home
Biography
Deborah Chambers is Professor Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. Her previous publications include Social Media and Personal Relationships (2013); A Sociology of Family Life (2012); New Social Ties (2006); Women and Journalism (2004) with Linda Steiner and Carol Fleming; Representing the Family (2001).
"Deborah Chambers’ new book answers a desperate need to understand the way media continually reshapes the domestic realm. At a time when our homes are populated by devices that have revolutionised our connections to the world, she provides us with astute histories and lucid maps for understanding this new situation, and she does so with intelligence and verve."
Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies (Media and Film), University of Sussex
"This new book is to be welcomed both as a critical review of and a valuable contribution to the academic literature on media-in-domestic-lives. Chambers offers a discussion of key concepts and research findings in this area, whilst underlining the importance of studying media technologies in their social and historical contexts."
Shaun Moores, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sunderland
"This book makes strikingly clear what has too often been underplayed in the largely disconnected trajectories of household studies and media studies: that homes and media have, in the modern era, been deeply intertwined. Chambers traces, across historical periods and technological innovations, how media came to penetrate homes, and how homes determine the way media is understood: just as media has been domesticated, the home has been mediatised."
Anna Cristina Pertierra, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis, University of Western Sydney
